HA Robert Barletta has same problem as Scarface - cash

A condo in Yorkville was used as a stash house for $5m in cash. Photos showed multiple people carrying shopping bags night and day. A successful criminal operation generates more dirty cash than people know what to do with. A cop explains.

“You end up with this pitfall of cash. You think of Scarface – he had cash in garbage bags. His biggest complaint: what do we do with all this cash?" Robert Barletta, Craig 'Truck' McIlquham

The sports betting operation was surveilled and infiltrated by cop rats in what became known as Project Hobart. The OPP held a news conference Dec 2019 to crow about 228 charges from their two-year probe of an illegal gambling ring run by HAMC and mafioso. Charges flopped miserably.

Cops describe a pyramid with hundreds of agents at various levels who were assigned code names and solicited bets, took commissions and passed a cut up. At the top were Robert Barletta of the Montreal Chapter and Craig McIlquham of the Niagara Chapter. Collection was "enforced through violence.” Barletta and McIlquham met with Hansley Joseph and Salvatore Cazzetta to “remove between $3 and $5 million in cash obtained from the illegal gaming operation from the 18 Yorkville Stash house.” Michael Deabaitua-Schulde was being watched by cops when he was whacked outside a Mississauga gym. That unsolved murder is said to be an internal matter.

Hansley Joseph

While the boys walked on criminal charges, civil forfeiture is on the hunt for proceeds of crime from their $160m operation. 14 websites brought in that amount over 6 years. McIlquham, 51, hid his loot in secret locations. In a hidden trap at his Toronto condo, cops found $40k in Canadian cash, $1,800 in US cash, a Brazilian visa in his name and ID with his photo but another man’s name. One of his vehicles in the underground parking lot returned $11k, a gun and a cellphone with evidence of bookmaking. From another vehicle cops seized a gold bar worth $206k. At another of his properties, cops found 27, 1 ounce gold coins in a black satin Louis Vuitton bag.

Most of the assets sought are real estate, many of them luxury homes. Parking dirty money in real estate has long been a preferred way to launder money in Canada.

See ----->HA Robert Barletta ensnared in dueling lawsuits
See ----->Michael Deabaitua-Schulde murder trial over

Dillon Juel Stanton sorry for crime spree - revisited

One year ago Vancouver cops lassoed 'violent offender' Dillon Juel Stanton, 33. He was wanted for violating release conditions.

Dillon Juel Stanton was serving a three-year sentence for an armed robbery in Coquitlam in 2017. He was on statutory release and had been ordered to live in a Vancouver halfway house and bolted. Stanton, son of ex-Hells Angel Juel Ross Stanton, was home when his father was gunned down in the family backyard in 2010. He blew the $500k insurance cash in 5 years and became a drug addict.

Juel Ross Stanton

Dillon Stanton in 2019.

A long string of often violent armed robberies followed. On March 13, 2017 cops found a massive hoard of stolen property, including 11 firearms, some with the serial numbers filed off. "I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart.” Stanton lied again in 2019. He had more than a dozen often violent convictions on his lengthy record.

India’s sand mafia - update II

Two mafia groups in northeast India exchanged gunfire, and torched a half dozen machines of each other, in an increasingly violent war over a natural resource. They aren’t battling over diamonds or oil: they want sand and they will kill for it. Intense demand, coupled with weak regulation, has made sand mining an easy target for criminals, especially in Cambodia, Kenya, Nigeria, and India.

The Enforcement Directorate cracked down on illegal sand mining in the Southern state of Tamil Nadu. The agency raided more than 25 locations across the state over money laundering and tax evasion. Sand is illegally extracted from riverbeds, causing environmental damage. It is then sold with no taxes being paid to the state. Sand miners S Ramachandran and ‘Dindigul’ Rathinam are being probed, as are 10 locations owned by jailed minister V Senthil Balaji.The enforcement case was registered without informing the corrupt Tamil Nadu Police.

300 trucks a day take their fill of sand at a mine on the Sone River in Bihar state.

The driver of an illegal sand-laden truck tried to run over an inspector. In another incident a mining inspector and cops narrowly escaped an attack by a gang of sand mafia in Bihar's Buxar district. Prices are up sharply and sand mining is becoming ever more profitable. Sand is a lucrative commodity in India. It fuels a black market for the illegal strip-mining of waterways. India’s construction boom helps keep the sand mining frontier lawless. Sand miners kill those who oppose them. Our modern world is built on sand: concrete, paved roads, ceramics, metallurgy, petroleum fracking, even the glass on smart phones. River sand is best: desert sand is too rounded to serve as industrial binding agents, and marine sand is corrosive.

Sand has become so valuable that it is shipped huge distances. Australia sends sand to Arabia for land reclamation. China is a sand glutton. The world uses 50 billion tonnes of sand every year — more than any other natural resource, except water. India’s sand mafia is well established. It is said the police cut of royalties inflates the price of river sands from 15k rupees ($150) a truckload to between 40k and 80k rupees.

A scarcity of sand, and efforts to regulate sand mining, have spawned illegal trade and black markets. The demand for sand is so intense in some places that gangs have taken over the trade completely.

Zombie deer disease on the rise

Scientists are warning a zombie deer disease could spread to humans after hundreds of animals were infected with the illness in the US over the last year. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in 800 samples of deer, elk and moose across Wyoming. Experts warn the disease is a “slow-moving disaster”. CWD is very hard to eradicate. It persists for years and is resistant to disinfectants, formaldehyde, radiation and incineration.

CWD has also been found in elk and white-tailed deer in Alberta and Saskatchewan this year.

Zambia's Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo quits after video

Zambia’s Foreign Minister Stanley Kakubo resigned hours after he was caught in a social media frenzy over a cash payment from a Chinese businessman. Kakubo said in a letter he was quitting because of “malicious claims over a business transaction”. A signed note, dated July 8, 2022, was also posted. The note named a Chinese mining firm and a Zambian mining firm and said they had “exchanged US $100,000”.

RidgeView Place - Langford hi-rise still vacant

The owner of the building, Centurion Property Associates Inc., is suing the seller, builder, engineers and the City of Langford. Renters were first told to get out Dec. 20, 2019, after investigation by the Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. found many serious structural flaws. Two engineers involved in the original work lost their registration. Plans for the building had been stolen by the now bankrupt builder DB Services and improperly modified by the two. Langford re-issued an occupancy permit in April 2022 after another engineer’s review, but in April, the engineering body informed Centurion and the city it had opened an investigation into that engineer.

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130 people had to evacuate the building and it has sat untouched since. The building trade in British Columbia at 3rd world levels is due to the continuous supply of incompetent criminals from the Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. A recent DeCotiis excavation wall collapse demonstrates all. The engineers/bums need to be regulated in B.C. for the public's safety.
See ----->DB Services - 3rd world criminal builder - Bankrupt
See ----->Decotiis wall collapse = Amacon Developments

Hakan Ayik luxury fleet turned into police cars

See ---->Hakan Ayik - Australia's top drug importer busted

21 cars formerly owned by drug kingpin Hakan Ayik were given a £3m makeover and are now Turkish police cars. Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, BMWs, Audis, Range Rovers and Mercedes are part of the assets from 55 gangsters worth £130m and includes bank accounts, houses, and shares in 22 different companies.

Ayik's fortune is estimated at $1 billion. He had been running his operation openly, with reports claiming he was paying $1m per month as protection money to corrupt government and military officials.

Toronto cop threatens to confiscate Canadian flag

Toronto Police tells counter-demonstrator to stop waving the Canadian flag in front of Palestinian supporters pic.twitter.com/XwnnhECwh9 — 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) December 24, 2023

A peaceful protest against a rapidly increasing Israel genocide found a Toronto pig loudly lecturing folks about his plans to steal the nation's flag. Where DO these little jackboot dickfaces on the TPS come from?This dopey cop is not de-escalating anything and should STFU.

Iranian water mafia

A record-breaking combination of heat and humidity last summer translated to an Iranian heat index value of more than 150 degrees, pushing the limits of human survival. Iran is grappling with water bankruptcy, where the consumption of renewable fresh water surpasses that available, leaving limited water reserves relegated to diminishing ground water. Aquifer replenishment is around 20 billion cubic meters, while withdrawal exceeds 51 billion cubic meters annually, resulting in a negative balance of underground fresh water. Amid criticism over the Iranian regime's environmental mismanagement that led to the disappearance of Lake Urmia, the regime is blaming foreigners. Lake Urmia, once the largest in the Middle East, has significantly shrunk over the years due to water mismanagement and climate change. In two decades the lake level has dropped more than 7 meters. (23 feet)

Following the Iran-Iraq war, the country’s development relied on aquifers, dams and hydropower production. Droughts and water shortages have led to soil erosion, desertification, and dust storms. Agriculture is sapping Iran’s surface water, stored in rivers, lakes, wetlands and reservoirs. The agricultural sector accounts for 90% of Iran’s water consumption, largely with practices rooted in tradition, not science.

Lake Oroumieh in March 2010.

Iranian authorities remain adamant about building more dams and redirecting water to address short term shortages. Tehran blames the Taliban, accusing it of violating a 1973 water treaty by restricting flow from the shared Helmand River from Afghanistan into Iran.

Lake Oroumieh in March 2023.

Limerick cocaine bust has Canadian connect

A bulker arriving in Ireland from Canada contained at least 300 kg of cocaine. The Verila arrived in the Irish port of Foynes near the city of Limerick last week. Owned by Bulgaria’s Navigation Maritime Bulgare (Navibulgar), the ship was reported to be carrying a load of grain from Canada. The ship departed Montreal on December 9. A search returned bundles of cocaine wrapped with life preservers as flotation devices and GPS beacons. Cops suspect the cocaine was to be tossed overboard to be recovered by a smaller boat.

The Verila came from Brazil and made a stop in Hamilton. Here.

This is the second major seizure the Irish have made in recent months. In September, another bulker, the Mathew, was found with over 2,000 kg of cocaine. The vessel was seized and a prosecution is ongoing in that case.

NJ pot and cocaine run goes bad

Edwin Spears, 49, and Leonardo Petrosillo, 45, were indicted after feds seized 28 pounds of cocaine and 500 pounds of pot from a private jet at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. The plane was headed to Liverpool John Lennon Airport, but the aircraft never left on Nov. 16 due to turbulence — US Customs and Border Protection. Surveillance footage showed Spears and Petrosillo move the drug-filled luggage from their vehicles into a hotel near the airport and then to the plane.

Spears has a criminal history dating to 1992, and was collared in 2010 on charges of money laundering, bribery, and racketeering. Described as a 'five-star general' of the Nine Trey Bloods, he has ties to the Lucchese crime family and others. Spears and Petrosillo pleaded not guilty to drug conspiracy charges in Brooklyn Federal Court. They are jailed in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Montreal cops land huge gold stash

Montreal cops stumbled on a huge cache of gold while carrying out a raid to seize illegal guns. Police arrested seven and seized nine firearms, a kilogram of cocaine, and 1.5 kg of meth. They also confiscated $500k in cash and “a large quantity of gold.” That 'large quantity' is said to be hundreds of thousands worth. In the annals of Montreal crime, the seizure of gold is extremely rare. In 40 years there is only one comparable story. In 1994, provincial police carried out a series of raids on the West End Gang, seizing 26.5 tonnes of hash at the Port of Montreal, along with $800k cash and two 2 kg bars of gold. NATURALLY folks are asking about the fate of the gold from the Toronto airport heist this spring.

Brink’s says a thief used a fraudulent waybill to steal 400 kg of gold worth $20.4m.

See ----->$20m gold heist at Pearson airport

Carlos Orense Azocar - 'El Gordo' guilty

The kingpin moved upwards of 1 tonne per week.

A Manhattan jury found Carlos Orense Azocar, 68, guilty on three counts related to importing cocaine into the U.S. Orense, 'El Gordo', the Fat Man, worked with the Cartel de Los Soles and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) guerrillas to smuggle cocaine. Former Venezuelan General Hugo Carvajal, who also faces drug charges in New York, has been fingered as a key player. He was the former head of security for the country.

Drug proceeds, described as huge, were laundered through a U.S. company which is wholly owned by Venezuelan state-owned Citgo. Drug-laden planes from Colombia landed in airstrips near the Venezuelan border, while security armed with AK-47 rifles stood guard, some of them wearing uniforms from the Venezuelan military. Documents claim that millions were paid to Venezuelan military officials to ensure the smooth running of the operation.

'El Gordo' is looking at life.

Wilder Sanchez Farfan - 'Gato'

Wilder Sanchez Farfan - 'Gato' (The Cat) is a drug lord with ties to Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel. Wanted in the United States, Farfan was arrested in Colombia in February. The U.S. Treasury Department calls him "one of the most significant drug traffickers in the world."

Gato Farfán is the leader of the Ecuador New Generation Cartel (Cartel Nueva Generación Ecuador), a coalition of several Ecuadorian gangs including the Lobos, the Tiguerones, the Chone Killers, and the Lagartos, among others. Coordinating and transporting cocaine shipments from Colombia through Ecuador for at least a decade, Gato Farfán helped develop Ecuador into the major drug trafficking hub it is today.

Ralph Stanfield - SA construction mafia

Firms run by the wife of 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield have been blacklisted as the City of Cape Town excludes contractors tied to wife Nicole Johnson. The City says after the murder of staffer Wendy Kloppers, it launched an investigation into the extortion mafia and companies which applied for tenders. Nicole Johnson owned 7 out of 12 companies.

Moll Nicole Johnson’s business was thrust into the spotlight in 2019 after her company, Glomix House Brokers, was awarded a tender to build houses in Valhalla Park, a stronghold of the 28s gang. A city manager says the formation of construction companies by gangsters to obtain government tenders is a ploy to steal. He says while skollies (slang, petty criminals) portray themselves as Robin Hoods, the community suffers as extortion impacts social housing. Wendy Kloppers was visiting the Delft Symphony Way housing project site when she was gunned down Feb 16. The Delft Housing Project has been suspended and the poor will wait even longer for homes.

NSW cops stumble on 722 kg

NSW cops say the seizure of cocaine estimated to have a street value of $1 billion is one of the largest in the state. It came after Sydney police foiled a kidnapping attempt. A search uncovered 722 kilograms of cocaine. When cops arrived, Hussein Hamed Habeeb, 24, tried to flee by jumping from his back balcony.He was the target of the kidnapping. Habeeb, from Melbourne, was charged with supply and proceeds of crime.

KGB publishes its 2024 calendar

The Russian dictator, 71, shows up ripped.

Authorship of the calendar is Division “C” of the Center for Special Purposes of the Federal Security Service. (FSB) The Spetsnaz was established in 1998 by Putin.

Putin kept his shirt on for his own 2024 calendar.